Intro: Off - prefix - belonging to, Offered - religious sacrificial offerlyding –
patronymics
1: Bodies = fantasy
2: Eye dent in ceiling, Aunt Lydia army, Banister = once a tree, turned in another
century, rubbed to a warm gloss, Like the eye of a fish - window
3: ROLES: Serena: sister, motherly figure
4: nick eye potential, Think of selves as seeds – Lydia, pretend we are trees (baby
ballet), Guardian looking beneath her veil - the event/ act if defiance/ reward -
like the candy I hoarded
5: Angel makers – roles
6: June: snowmen faces melt, mayday - French meaning ‘help me’ - maidez
7: time ambiguity, moors and date rape (French), childhood burning books,
Serena joy = Pam. God = pink
8: flour (scarecrows), kitchen = women’s body, flour burst, “bath time” - exact
parallel to objectification comments
9: nolites bastardes carbodorum, is she referring to herself, she says she isn’t
telling the truth at the beginning, is that girl her? god = pink
10: Unknown word, Amazing Grace irony, interfered, things
11: Moira, doctor, paintings + pigs
12: bath, daughter
13: testifying, Luke, daughter, dream
14: Eye of glass, Sitting room, embroidery of flower genitalia
15: Commander a garment, Cigarette vs petal, Fart
16: Silver/Cigarette vs petal repeated, Lack of relationship
17: Irony of Offred liking Nick but being asked by him to go to the commanders
18: what she imagined Luke’s fate to be
19: “Pleasure is eggs” : eggs = double meaning, hypocrisy of nuclear affecting
children now, irony of Aunt Lydia’s comment about Jezebel’s - seems quite direct,
end - women treated like pet pigs from the wives.
20: Lydia: it will be easier for the next generation, “mats” - treated like children,
“one glass eye”, chopping up woman’s body, “DO YOU BELIEVE A WOMAN’s
PLACE IS ON THE KITCHEN TABLE?”, “A man is just a woman”: strategy of making
other women”, chauvinistic pig. Bugle, approbation = approval
21: Offred’s sarcasm about the wives pretending - ridiculousness of the
dystopian traditions, “panting”
22: Janine = puppy, Moira escape = fantasy – used toilet to escape
23: commander’s fireless fireplace, books, fantasy (murder)
patronymics
1: Bodies = fantasy
2: Eye dent in ceiling, Aunt Lydia army, Banister = once a tree, turned in another
century, rubbed to a warm gloss, Like the eye of a fish - window
3: ROLES: Serena: sister, motherly figure
4: nick eye potential, Think of selves as seeds – Lydia, pretend we are trees (baby
ballet), Guardian looking beneath her veil - the event/ act if defiance/ reward -
like the candy I hoarded
5: Angel makers – roles
6: June: snowmen faces melt, mayday - French meaning ‘help me’ - maidez
7: time ambiguity, moors and date rape (French), childhood burning books,
Serena joy = Pam. God = pink
8: flour (scarecrows), kitchen = women’s body, flour burst, “bath time” - exact
parallel to objectification comments
9: nolites bastardes carbodorum, is she referring to herself, she says she isn’t
telling the truth at the beginning, is that girl her? god = pink
10: Unknown word, Amazing Grace irony, interfered, things
11: Moira, doctor, paintings + pigs
12: bath, daughter
13: testifying, Luke, daughter, dream
14: Eye of glass, Sitting room, embroidery of flower genitalia
15: Commander a garment, Cigarette vs petal, Fart
16: Silver/Cigarette vs petal repeated, Lack of relationship
17: Irony of Offred liking Nick but being asked by him to go to the commanders
18: what she imagined Luke’s fate to be
19: “Pleasure is eggs” : eggs = double meaning, hypocrisy of nuclear affecting
children now, irony of Aunt Lydia’s comment about Jezebel’s - seems quite direct,
end - women treated like pet pigs from the wives.
20: Lydia: it will be easier for the next generation, “mats” - treated like children,
“one glass eye”, chopping up woman’s body, “DO YOU BELIEVE A WOMAN’s
PLACE IS ON THE KITCHEN TABLE?”, “A man is just a woman”: strategy of making
other women”, chauvinistic pig. Bugle, approbation = approval
21: Offred’s sarcasm about the wives pretending - ridiculousness of the
dystopian traditions, “panting”
22: Janine = puppy, Moira escape = fantasy – used toilet to escape
23: commander’s fireless fireplace, books, fantasy (murder)
